Joe Drape has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is American Pharoah.
American Pharoah
Summary
History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion is, the team behind him has been all too human while on the road to immortality. Written by an award-winning The New York Times sportswriter, American Pharoah is the definitive account not only of how the ethereal colt won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, but how he changed lives. Through extensive interviews, Drape explores the making of an exceptional racehorse, chronicling key events en route to history. Covering everything from the flamboyant owner's successful track record, the jockey's earlier heartbreaking losses, and the Hall of Fame trainer's intensity, Drape paints a stirring portrait of a horse for the ages and the people around him.
©2016 Joe Drape (P)2016 Hachette Audio
The Saint Makers
Summary
Part biography of a wartime adventurer, part detective story, and part faith journey, this intriguing book from New York Times journalist and best-selling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint. The Saint Makers chronicles the unlikely alliance between Father Hotze and Dr. Andrea Ambrosi, a country priest and a cosmopolitan Italian canon lawyer, as the two piece together the life of a long dead Korean War hero and military chaplain and fashion it into a case for eternal divinity. Joe Drape offers a front row seat to the Catholic Church's saint-making machinery - which, in many ways, has changed little in 2,000 years-and examines how, or if, faith and science can coexist. This rich and unique narrative leads from the plains of Kansas to the opulent halls of the Vatican, through brutal Korean War prison camps, and into the stories of two individuals, Avery Gerleman and Chase Kear, whose lives were threatened by illness and injury and whose family and friends prayed to Father Kapaun, sparking miraculous recoveries in the heart of America. Gerleman is now a nurse, and Kear works as a mechanic in the aerospace industry. Both remain devoted to Father Kapaun, whose opportunity for sainthood relies in their belief and medical charts. At a time when the church has faced severe scandal and damage, and the world is at the mercy of a pandemic, this is an uplifting story about a priest who continues to an example of goodness and faith. Ultimately, The Saint Makers is the story of a journey of faith - for two priests separated by 70 years, for the two young athletes who were miraculously brought back to life with (or without) the intercession of the divine, as well as for listeners - and the author - trying to understand and accept what makes a person truly worthy of the Congregation of Saints in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
©2020 Joe Drape (P)2020 Hachette Books